First day of orientation
Good morning!
Yesterday was our first day of orientation. Kansai Gaidai has two campuses, which I already knew. What I didn´t know is that it´s around 15 min walk in order to get to the other campus. So... I went to the wrong campus at first. ^^' Luckily, I made it in time for the information meeting. The sad thing is that I can´t take some of the classes that I wanted to take because they are on different campuses, and you only have a 10 min break between classes.
The rest of the day included a Class advisor meeting, a Japanese placement test, and a Campus Tour. There is not much to say about the class advisor meeting, all students got divided into groups and met one teacher that will be like our contact person during our time here at Kansai Gaidai.
The Japanese placement test was scheduled for 1,5 h, but apparently, we only had 1 h (?). I took it so slowly because I thought that I had a lot of time... But I was almost done when they came and said "5 min left", but I didn´t have time to read through my answers -.-' The test started with a few questions about your prior Japanese studies, how long, etc. One question was also, "If you are in between two levels, do you want to be placed in the higher or lower level", I checked the box for the higher level. I think it´s better to start in the higher because I´m here to learn. But if I would feel it´s too advanced then it´s easier to move down, than do the other way if I would feel it´s too easy. Of course, this is only relevant if you are in between two levels.
The campus tour was really good, now I hopefully will find my way. Both campuses are so beautiful, and I will probably take some pictures and show them in another post!
Now I have to get ready for day two, mata ne!
Yesterday was our first day of orientation. Kansai Gaidai has two campuses, which I already knew. What I didn´t know is that it´s around 15 min walk in order to get to the other campus. So... I went to the wrong campus at first. ^^' Luckily, I made it in time for the information meeting. The sad thing is that I can´t take some of the classes that I wanted to take because they are on different campuses, and you only have a 10 min break between classes.
The rest of the day included a Class advisor meeting, a Japanese placement test, and a Campus Tour. There is not much to say about the class advisor meeting, all students got divided into groups and met one teacher that will be like our contact person during our time here at Kansai Gaidai.
The Japanese placement test was scheduled for 1,5 h, but apparently, we only had 1 h (?). I took it so slowly because I thought that I had a lot of time... But I was almost done when they came and said "5 min left", but I didn´t have time to read through my answers -.-' The test started with a few questions about your prior Japanese studies, how long, etc. One question was also, "If you are in between two levels, do you want to be placed in the higher or lower level", I checked the box for the higher level. I think it´s better to start in the higher because I´m here to learn. But if I would feel it´s too advanced then it´s easier to move down, than do the other way if I would feel it´s too easy. Of course, this is only relevant if you are in between two levels.
The campus tour was really good, now I hopefully will find my way. Both campuses are so beautiful, and I will probably take some pictures and show them in another post!
Now I have to get ready for day two, mata ne!
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